Geoffrey de Say was an English nobleman, and Magna Carta

Magna Carta

Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions, which included the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority to date. The charter first passed into law in 1225...

 surety.

He held land at Edmonton

Edmonton, London

Edmonton is an area in the east of the London Borough of Enfield, England, north-north-east of Charing Cross. It has a long history as a settlement distinct from Enfield.-Location:...

 and Sawbridgeworth

Sawbridgeworth

Sawbridgeworth is a small, mainly residential, town and also a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.- Location :Sawbridgeworth is four miles south of Bishop's Stortford, twelve miles east of Hertford and nine miles north of Epping. It lies on the A1184 and has a railway station that links to...

. He had family claims to larger estates, but they had gone to the kinsman Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex

Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex

Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex was a prominent member of the government of England during the reigns of Richard I and John. The patronymic is sometimes rendered Fitz Piers, for he was the son of Piers de Lutegareshale, forester of Ludgershall.-Life:He was from a modest landowning family that...

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Family

Geoffrey was the son of Geoffrey De Saye, Lord of West Greenwich (1135-1214).
Geoffrey De Saye, II, Lord of West Greenwich was born in 1155 in West Greenwich, Kent, England. He died 24 Aug 1230 in Gascoigne, Poitou, France.
He married Alice De Chesney (1159-)
Children are:
William De Saye, V, Governor of Rochester Castle (1205-1271) who married Sibyl Marshal (1213-)

External links

• http://perso.numericable.fr/~earlyblazo/nation/england/southeast.htm